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East of England

Chelmsford

10th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 2,780 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.
NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)

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Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Chelmsford yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime
271/543
health
439/543
income
444/543
housing
477/543
education
449/543
employment
403/543
environment
450/543

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Identified resource gaps

crime MODERATE
Rank 271/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

4156 registered charities

4,156
Charities
£42,959,298
Grants to HQ'd charities
22,334
Employees
208,454
Volunteers
25.5%
Govt funded
LOW
Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

THOMAS PARKER
THE POOR'S ESTATE
JOHN PUCKLE FOR THE POOR
REVEREND C A JONES
JOHN COWLIN
ELIZABETH WARNER COTTAGE
REMEMBRANCES COTTAGES
JOHN CARMICHAEL WHITTAKER
CHARLES SMITH
MARY FOUNTAIN

GP and primary care

8
GP practices
43
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,780
Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). This constituency is 580 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Chelmsford, by sector

Sector Employees
Education 6,000
Construction 3,350
Social Care 2,800
Transport 2,365
NHS / Healthcare 2,000
Environment / Green 115

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance
360Giving GrantNav [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
Charity Commission Register [source]
Accessed 2026-03-31
English Indices of Deprivation [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]
Accessed 2026-04-04
Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08

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